What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

The funniest things are the forbidden.